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Former Tory leader and Folkestone and Hythe MP, Michael Howard has attacked party leader, David Cameron's 'outrageous' decision to drop the party's long-standing commitment to grammar schools according to the online Daily Mail.

It is said on the website that Mr Howard, a former grammar school pupil, angrily phoned Mr Cameron's office to protest after he learned of the U-turn.

The article's author claims Mr Howard was only talked out of denouncing Mr Cameron in public after panicking Tory chiefs warned him it would be an act of treachery.

But a defiant Mr Howard vented his fury at a meeting of Conservative MPs, and friends say he may yet speak out in public it's claimed.

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